We left school at 6:30 that morning. I was barely awake, and the only keeping my eyes open was the anticipation of our arrival, some three hours later. As usual, some one was late. It was no surprise that it was Ed Wong, the misfit of the grade. After the teachers exchanged a few uneasy glances, we left Pen Ryn. I fell asleep on the bus, so I don’t remember much about the ride to the Statue of Liberty. I woke up with a bout ten minutes to go in our ride, just in time to see the heart of the city. I breathed a glimpse of Manhattan. With only a few seconds of awe, we arrived at our destination. After we regressed from the tour bus, w

I felt the beads of sweat trickle down my neck. The chaperone told us that we could go back down if we don’t want to continue. I started down the stairs, but no one else went down and I definitely didn’t want to be the only one to back out now. We started up the spiral staircase. The railing on the side of the staircase only came up a few inches above my knees. With every step I took, my knees started to shake a little more. Eventually, I couldn’t walk straight anymore, and had to crawl up the Statue. I picked my head up and was shocked to see the rest of my class crawling too. I could feel the Statue sway in the wind, and was compelled to ask my teacher if the Statue was going to fall down. She replied, “No, Matt. We’re going to be fine.” Her answer wasn’t very convincing. I scoped out the top of the great mass of galvanized metal, and forced myself up the last ten stairs. I made it; I was on top of the world.

The next fifteen minutes were a blur, probably because I was concentrating so hard on stopping my hands from trembling. We set off to the base of pedestal. My hands shook more violently with every step I took. Before I knew it, we were walking up the stairs of the pedestal. I looked up the stairs and thought to

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